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Contemporary Family Trends Papers

Contemporary Family Trends is a series of occasional papers authored by leading Canadian experts in the field of family studies.

These papers have been commissioned by The Vanier Institute of the Family as a contribution to discussion and as a source for the development of the Institute's perspective on family issues

Themes

Aboriginal Families

  • Aboriginal Family Trends - Extended Families, Nuclear Families, Families of the Heart, by Marlene Brant Castellano (2002)

    Aging

  • The effects of the changing age structure on Households and Families to 2026,
    by Roger Sauvé (2006)
  • The Ties that Bind Aging Families, by Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews (2001)
  • Cohabitation

  • Cohabitation and Marriage: How Are They Related?, by Anne-Marie Ambert (2005)

    Divorce

  • Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, by Dr. Anne-Marie Ambert (Revised edition 2009)
  • Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, by Dr. Anne-Marie Ambert (Revised edition 2005)

    Emotional Intelligence

  • Building Emotional Intelligence: Darwin Reconsidered, by Jenni Tipper (2007)
  • Heart Smarts, by Alanna Mitchell and Robert Glossop, Ph. D. (2005)

    Family and Environment

  • Families and Environment: Understanding, Cultivating and Celebrating their Links, by Barbara Vogt (2008)

    Family Finances

  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2008 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2009)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2007 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2008)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2006 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2007)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2005 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2006)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2004 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2005)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2003 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2004)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2002 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2003)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2001 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2002)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2000 Report, by Roger Sauvé (2000)
  • The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 1999 Report, by Roger Sauvé (1999)
  • Trends in Canadian Family Incomes, Expenditures, Savings and Debt, by Roger Sauvé (1999)
  • Family & Food

  • Rediscovering the Family Meal, by Bernard Roy, Nurse, PhD; Judith Petitpas, BSc (2008)

    Family Strengths

  • Strengths in Families: Accentuating the Positive, by Dr. Ben Schlesinger (1998)

    Family Time

  • "Caution! Children at Play?" Unstructured Time Use among Children and Adolescents,
    by Belinda Boekhoven (2009)
  • It Keeps Getting Faster: Changing Patterns of Time in Families, by Dr. Kerry Daly (2000)

    Gambling

  • Gambling with our (Kids’) Futures: Gambling as a family policy Issue by Arlene Moscovitch (2006)

    Life Transitions

  • Delayed Life Transitions: Trends and Implications, by Roderic Beaujot (2004)

    Media and Family

  • Good Servant, Bad Master? Electronic Media and the Family,by Arlene Moscovitch (2007) 
  • Electronic Media and the Family, by Arlene Moscovitch (1998)

    Parenthood

  • The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes by Anne-Marie Ambert, Ph.D. (2007)
  • One-Parent Families: Characteristics, causes, consequences, and issues
    by Anne-Marie Ambert, Ph.D. (2006)
  • The Changing Culture of Parenting, by Kerry Daly (2004)
  • Portraits of Fathers, by Diane Dubeau, Ph.D. (2002)
  • Grandparenthood in Canada, by Dr. Carolyn Rosenthal and Dr. James Gladstone (2000)
  • Same-Sex Couples

    Same-Sex Couples and Same-Sex-Parent Families: Relationships, Parenting, and Issues of Marriage, by Dr. Anne-Marie Ambert (Revised edition 2005)

    Urban Planning

  • Children & Cities: Planning to Grow Together, by Juan Torres, Ph.D. (2009) 
  • "Caution! Children at Play?" Unstructured Time Use among Children and Adolescents,
    by Belinda Boekhoven (2009)
  • Work and Family

  • Work/Family Balance: What Do We Really Know?, by Jacques Barrette, Ph.D. (2009) 
  • Connections - Tracking the links between jobs and family, by Roger Sauvé (2002)

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